[Ken522]

Was VP Biden there? The celebration isn’t complete unless Biden is there ...

[.45 Long Colt]

I don’t understand why Americans give a fig about royals. I have no king but King Jesus.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Give Delaware back to Sweden. They can take the 3 Stalinist members of Congress and we’ll throw in Vice-Emperor Plugs as a gimme.

[ObligedFriend]

Napoleon’s Marshal Bernadotte

[Charles Henrickson]

Following the luncheon, the royals headed over to the Wilmington river front where they boarded a replica ship of the Kalmar Nykel. . . .

My 13th-generation grandfather, Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, came over on the original Kalmar Nyckel, on the second voyage (1639-40), and he was one of the founders of New Sweden.

Ping to the Swedish Ping List.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for the post, Viiksitimali, and the ping, SunkenCiv.

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[ZULU]

See:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Kalmar+Nyckel&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=zPilUeaVMZH94AO97ICgCQ&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=793

Kalmar Nyckel - AWESOME!!!

[JerseyHighlander]

Swedes had colonies all up and down the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River, all the way up to Port Jervis area of NY State. They would harvest crops and timber, build the timber into barges, and float down the Delaware River to ports around Philadelphia, PA, Camden, NJ and Wilmington, Delaware, sell the crops and the timber, and then walk home for up to two weeks.

Still plenty of place names in NW NJ, Northeastern PA, and the NY side of the NY/PA border with Swedish names.